It's amazing, and I'm quite sure discouraging for college professors everywhere, that Bobby Petrino will supposedly be paid $25.5 million over the next 10 years to coach football at the University of Louisville.

Bobby Petrino. Louisville. $49,038.46 per week. Each and every week, on average, for 10 l-o-n-g years.

Do you have any idea how many beakers that would buy for the UofL's science labs? Do you have any idea how many 360s Knute Rockne is spinning right now in his grave?

I'm not so sure where Louisville is going to come up with $49,038.46 each and every week, on average, for 10 l-o-n-g years for this man, Petrino. The Cardinals' stadium holds only 42,000 -- which is some 7,500 fewer than the Carrier Dome, a joint Daryl Gross has deemed too small for the program he's intending to build here in our town.

So, if nearly 50,000 is too limiting as far as generating income in Syracuse, Louisville's Big East brethren which pays its football coach a whole lot less than $25.5 million, how does 42,000 work out there among the Cardinals?

And another thing: Petrino has taken his athletes to a 29-8 record in his three seasons at the helm, which computes to an average of 9.7-2.7 per campaign . . . and he's been rewarded in shiek-like fashion. For his part, Paul Pasqualoni went 107-59-1 in his 14 years on the throne, which dopes out to an average of 7.6-4.2 per season . . . and he was tossed through the doors shortly after Gross's arrival.

The lesson? There's an awful lot of money to be made with two wins a year. And Bobby Petrino's weekly pay of $49,038.46 is Exhibit "A."